Improvement in hand-stamps



1E. GUn/IBS.

Hand-Stamp.

No. 210,457. Patented Dec. 3,1878.

S. B M U G D R A W u E N. PETERS, FHDTQLITHOGRAP UNITED STATES PATENTQFFICE.

EDWARD GUMBS, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-STAMPS.

Speciiication forming part of LettersPatcnt No. 210,457, dated December25, 1878; application filed June 5, 1878.

1'0 att whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD GUMBS, of Jersey City, in the State of NewJersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in India-RubberHand-Stamps, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in the arrangement of a portable orpocket stamp re quiring no box to contain the same, and without anyliability to soil the ngers with ink in handling the stamp. For thispurpose I arrange the stamp with an internal self-acting spring, which,as soon as the stamp is removed Vfrom the inking pad, will Aturn thestamp in the right position ready for operation.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure I represents a front view of a stampembodying my improvement. Fig. II'is a section of the same. Fig. III isa top View of the inking-pad, and Fig. IV a bottom view of the stamp.

To a suitable socket, A, the inkingpad frame B is attached by means of abolt, a.

C is a light frame, guided in the socket A and by the projections orlips n on the outside of the inkingpad frame B. This frame is forced andkept in its downward position by means of a suitable spring, c, actingagainst the bottom of the frame C and the under side of the inking-padframe B. To the upper end of thisframe C the box D, to which therequired stamp is fastened, is attached, capable of .turning around itsspindle m. 0n the outside of this box D projections zo are made on oneside only,bearing either against the one or the other .side oi' theframe C, and thus allowing to said stamp-box D only one-half of a turnaround its spindle m.

Around the spindle m, in the inside ot' the box D, a spiral spring, w,is placed, one end of which spring is fastened to said spindle, and theother end, s, of said spring a: is made to act against the inside of thebox D.

As shown in Figs. I and II, the stampbox D is turned in .a position withthe type or stamp downward or inward, in contact with the inking-pad inthe box C, and is retained in that position through the action of thespring c holding the` frame 4C, and, consequently, the box D, downward.

When the stamp is to be used, the frame G is pushed upward, whereby thebox D or the type on said box is brought clear of the inking pad, whenthe action of the end s of the spring w causes said box D to turn aroundits spindle m until the projections w come in contact with the sides ofthe frame C, thereby bringing and holding the stamp in the requiredposition ready to be used.

When the stamp is 11o more to be used, the box Dl must be turned aroundagain by means ofthe fingers, so as to bring the type again against theinking-pad, by which operation the spring a; is likewise wound up ortightened again, ready for the next operation.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with a stamp-box, D, turningon its spindle m, of the projections w and the internal spiral sprin gx,arranged to operate substantially in the manner and for thel purposedescribed.

EDW'ARD GUMBS.

